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The Naked PC - http://www.TheNakedPC.com What You Need to Know about All Things PC Publisher: Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee Editor in Chief: Dan Butler Contributing Editor: Al Gordon This issue is for Thursday, August 8, 2002 - Vol. 5 No. 16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Notes from the Field - July 2002 (by T.J. Lee) ** 03. Along Came a Spider (by Al Gordon) ** 04. Fighting Spam - Part VIII (by Dan Butler) ** 05. Where the Rubber Meets the Road: An In-Car Navigation System Review (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 06. Featured Product - TextAloud MP3 (by Al Gordon) ** 07. Featured Web Site - Bootdisk.com (reviewed by Lee Hudspeth) ** 08. Featured Drawing ** 09. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 01. Letter from the Publisher If your identity was stolen, what would you do? MSNBC reporter Bob Sullivan examines how one particular identity theft victim retraced the thief's steps (see first link). The second and third links refer to Lee's articles on identity theft. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?publet1 http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?publet2 http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?publet3 In this issue... Jim shares his notes from the field about changes in the LAN/WAN arena that affect businesses large and small. Al studies a Web spider that retrieves content and will follow links, to a depth you select, for additional content retrieval. Dan investigates a spam deletion tool that works before you download your POP3 email. Lee reports on his recent experiences with a versatile in-car navigation system. CONGRATULATIONS to TNPCer Peter W. who won our previous drawing. This issue we are giving away another Photon Micro-Light. It's fun and easy to enter, see the Featured Drawing article. Reader support is what keeps The Naked PC free. To this end you can help us by passing a copy on to co-workers and friends (no spam please). We even make it easy to refer people to The Naked PC... check out our Refer page: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/refer/ +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ >> "How Many Ways Will You Use These Amazing Devices?" They're incredibly handy. When we first saw these amazing little devices we thought, "these will look cool hanging on my key ring." Then we started using them. WOW - every day we find more uses. How many will you find? http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/a/tr.cgi?swisstech +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 02. Notes from the Field - July 2002 (by T.J. Lee) As many regular TNPC readers know, I had to give up my erstwhile ways about eight months ago and get a real job in the computer industry here in California's San Joaquin Valley. I work as a project manager for a consulting company that among other things services, installs, and overhauls LANs and WANs. This department is keeping very busy this summer with migrations and conversions and while I don't know how representative this geographical area is I thought I'd share with you what I see happening in the computer world from behind my desk. First, no surprise here but Novell servers are becoming scarce and companies big and small are migrating their old Novell boxes to Windows. It's sad but the handwriting has been on the wall now for some time. Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Microsoft SBS operating systems are the server operating systems of choice. SBS has a nice bundle of components for shops with a smaller number of desktops. Speaking of Microsoft, a lot of Exchange 5.5 servers are getting upgraded to Exchange 2000. Not sure what the rush is but it may have something to do with Microsoft's Upgrade Advantage program for licensing that ran out July 31st. I say "upgraded" but according to the system engineers I work with you don't want to upgrade from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 but rather bring in a new server running a newly installed copy of Exchange 2000 and migrate your mailboxes from the old 5.5 server to the new 2000 server. Virtual private networks (VPN) are all the rage as I've discussed in previous issues and there seems no end in sight for this compelling technology. Ditto for the number of wireless doohickeys getting installed at clients' sites. The VPN proliferation means that telecommuting will finally hit the big time letting a lot of corporate users perform their jobs from their homes instead of trekking into the office each day. From a practical standpoint consider that one of our lead engineers preformed an Exchange migration from a mail server running 5.5 to one running Exchange 2000 at a client office on the East Coast from our offices here on the West Coast. You can reach T.J. 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(It's like the way the volume of printing you do goes up the more "paperless" the workplace becomes.) One thing I have been running into lately has been reports or other documents I need to read being made available online as a full Web site rather than a single document. That's better Web design, of course, but it's a pain to put into printable form. And then, of course, there is the age-old problem of a document disappearing when you really need it. Enter WebCopier from MaximumSoft. It's a Web "spider" program that you point to a page and it retrieves both the content of the page and then follows the links from the page to get that data also. The Windows version alone is $30; a package that also allows loading web sites onto Pocket PC handhelds is $35. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?al1 WebCopier meets the two essential requirements for an "offline browser": it's quick and it's easy. It supports downloading as many as 100 files at the same time, but the default of 5 was plenty fast. Naturally, it's much faster than downloading multiple pages one at a time via your browser. Using The New York Times as a test site, WebCopier sorted through more than 3,800 items in less than three minutes. The only thing that will slow it down is if you point it at major sites where you can find yourself chasing thousands of links. The easy-to-use wizards will give you settings that will work for typical sites, but you will need to make adjustments for larger ones. Fortunately, adjustments are plentiful. You can limit your search by the number of links distant from the original page, or by the domain, or filter by various file types. I particularly liked the fact that WebCopier sets the links of the downloaded site so that they work with your regular browser, not just the software's internal viewer. Plus, WebCopier uses relative linking so that the data is highly portable -- just the thing for putting the downloaded site onto a CD-R. Another nice touch is that there are multiple print options, including printing all or portions of the site. And there is a scheduler so that you can do an ongoing automatic check of a site. If you need to efficiently retrieve and store information for the Web, WebCopier is the right tool. SIDEBAR: And speaking of paradoxes... Ray Geide, the creator of one of my favorite utilities, WinRescue, has an unintentionally funny piece on his Web site: "WARNING - Windows XP Can Crash." http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?al2 Geide warns computer users that while XP's NT architecture is more stable than the Win9x platform, it is still something less than bulletproof. And, indeed, now that I have more stable XP running my PC, I am using Superwin's $24.95 WinRescue -- a backup tool for the Windows registry and configuration files -- more than ever before. No mystery, really. Unlike previous flavors of NT, which supported only a limited set of hardware, XP aims to run everything. And that means it is vulnerable to all manner of driver issues, file corruption and general unpleasantness. Furthermore, Windows XP System Restore always seems to fail just when you REALLY need it. Hence, I fire up WinRescue XP, restore the backed up Registry, and I get back to work. (c) 2002, Al Gordon You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ MICRO-LIGHTS the Super POCKET FLASHLIGHT! Micro-Lights are the BRIGHTEST flashlights for their size in the WORLD. Reliable, incredibly bright light for any situation. A Micro-Light is small enough to clip to your key chain, carry it in your pocket or purse and you won't even know it's there. But you'll never, ever be caught in the dark! Instant light in emergencies, or just when you have to find something under your desk or the sofa. The Red, Orange, or Yellow lights run for 120 hours on a single lithium battery! Carry a Micro-Light for a week and you'll never go anywhere without one again. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/a/tr.cgi?pocketflashlight +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 04. Fighting Spam - Part VIII (by Dan Butler) Many people have asked me about a program called MailWasher. Do I recommend it? Does it work? I'll answer those questions in this article. MailWasher logs in to your email account and lets you delete spam before you download your email. It currently only works with regular POP3 mail systems. If you get your mail over an IMAP system, an online account like Yahoo!, or through AOL the current version won't work for you. Downsides -- if you receive a lot of email it can be time consuming to view and sift through it with MailWasher. It is also possible that new email will come in between the time you use MailWasher and when you actually download your mail. This should not be a problem for most of you. So how does it work? MailWasher uses two different Blacklists. The first you build yourself based on the email coming to your account. The other uses the MAPS RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) to Blacklist incoming mail. These Blacklists sound nice. However, make sure you understand why and how people get blacklisted. It may prevent you from receiving mail you really want. I'm not saying don't use programs like this, I'm saying make sure you know what the program will do and how it will do it before activating it. You'll find information and helpful pointers in the MailWasher help file. MailWasher can automatically "bounce" messages you mark as spam in an effort to get you off of spammers lists. In my experience bouncing spam messages is hit and miss. You can refer to my previous articles for my opinions on when you should reply to a spam, but in a nutshell -- never. If the bounces are going to actual high-volume spammers you can rest assured they are doing little good. Most modern email clients will let you view the headers of your email before you download. Check the help file to find the specifics in your email client. Then log in and sift through your mail. Delete the spam then download the rest. That's what you'll be doing with MailWasher. The only change is that MailWasher will try to identify the spam for you. If you are comfortable using this two-step approach, go ahead and try MailWasher. MailWasher can be helpful if you have trouble identifying spam messages. It did a reasonable job of flagging potential spam when I tested it. This is after I told it all the mailing lists I was on so those messages would not be identified as spam. Before you tell me that MailWasher has eliminated your spam remember -- if it's just deleting on your server before you download it you are still getting the spam. You just aren't downloading it. That is a worthy accomplishment but doesn't do anything to help reduce the strain on your ISP's system. My opinion of MailWasher? If you are looking for a way to reduce your spam load it may be worth a try. For me it was very time consuming and added nothing my current email client (Pegasus) didn't offer. The only exception was the RBL lookup which I would not use in any event because I'd rather decide what is and isn't spam myself and not let some master list do this for me. The bottom line is that you have to decide how much time and effort you want to spend fighting spam. I prefer to spend that time with my kids. If you are getting a lot of spam try MailWasher and see if it takes you less time to deal with your mail using the program. If it does, great! If not I'd recommend going back to just deleting the spam. You can find MailWasher at: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?dan1 Next issue I'll tell you what I currently do to combat spam and what I recommend to others as well. And why what I recommend is different from what I do. If you missed earlier installments of this series you can find them here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?dan2 You can reach Dan Butler at: mailto:danbutler@TheNakedPC.com ** 05. Where the Rubber Meets the Road: An In-Car Navigation System Review (by Lee Hudspeth) Last week I rented a car from Hertz and by chance it came with an in-car navigation system, free. I used it, and while doing so took notes. Here's my review. According to the literature in the car the model name is Magellan NeverLost NLII. Back in the office, I have determined that it's a Magellan 750NAV (see link at end of article; a picture is available at the link address). The device intrigued me not only because it proved so useful and easy to use, but because its presence represents the burgeoning incursion of high-tech devices into everyday situations. It's pleasant to see a device that integrates seamlessly. The device's chassis is mounted on a swivel to the dash, allowing it to be viewed only by the driver, only by the passenger, or both. (That's where Hertz installed it. If you mount it in your own car, anything goes.) Its dimensions are about 6" high, 3" wide, and 1.5" thick. The high-resolution color screen measures about 2.25" by 2.5". The user interface consists of the following buttons: Locate; Option; View; Cancel; Enter; an eight-point circular cursor/selector; + (plus); - (minus); along with power, brightness, and volume controls. The device is so easy to use that we never needed to refer to any printed documentation (of which there was only one small laminated card) nor run the demo. Once you identify your destination (more on that in a moment) the main display is a dynamic and *extremely* detailed map of your vehicle's surroundings. The vehicle is represented by an arrowhead pointing in the car's current direction. Nearby roads are identified by their names and lines just as they would be on a traditional paper-based map. Other topographical cues are also visible. The current route is highlighted. The lower one-fourth of the screen shows your current cardinal direction and street name, miles to the next turn on your route, hours:minutes remaining to your destination, and total miles remaining to your destination. Using the + and - buttons you can change the scale to any of these units: 1/8, 1/4, 1, 4, 10, or 20 miles. A pleasant, well-enunciated female voice warns you of each approaching route change two miles and then again one-half mile prior. For shorter route legs, the pre-announcement distance shrinks accordingly. If you miss a turn, the device politely advises you to take the next legal U-turn, and then it figures out and announces the next legal U-turn by name and distance from your current position. For non-90 degree turns you are advised like this, "Slight right turn ahead in point five miles," and another variation is, "Keep to the left in point five miles." A pleasant but firm "ding ding" tone sounds about 25-50 yards before the actual turn. To identify your destination, you choose "Select Destination" from the device's default menu display, then you key in an intersection or a street address (you must provide the city name), or choose from a list of attractions and other facilities stored in the CAA/AAA database. Since there's no keyboard, the screen displays the alphabet--and numbers when needed--plus a backspace, period, and space, and you pick the desired letter with the eight-point circular selector. As you add each character to a city, street, or facility name, the alphabet display eliminates letters that aren't in the remaining strings. Very smart programming (called QuickSpell by the manufacturer), and it really does make it easier to quickly build the destination name without a keyboard. If there are multiple same-name cities in various states, they appear in a sorted list you can cycle through. The unit remembers all the destinations you request it to locate; there is also an option to erase all previous destinations. The transceiver unit is stored securely in the trunk and is about 6" x 6" x 1". The NLII unfailingly guided us to over a dozen destinations in the southeastern United States and we didn't need to refer to a paper map. On one side trip my dad and I did manage, unintentionally, to put the unit into what we jokingly called "black hole mode." We decided to travel one of my dad's useful traffic-avoidance shortcuts, and this involved getting onto a road only recently constructed (within the last two years). The NLII displayed our vehicle and the proper orientation, but projected us as being in a black void. Surrounding known streets were displayed correctly, and once we got off the unknown street the unit immediately placed us there in the proper orientation and recalculated a new route from that point forward. Here's a quick list of the other UI features. View -- shows in a list format the number of miles to the next route change and that road's name or exit number, for the entire route. Option -- map selection; an impressive language selection (English, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish); miles vs. kilometers; a service directory; a trip computer; and a demo mode. The service directory was somewhat stunted; NeverLost help, airline flight info, local weather/traffic, and Hertz assistance modes all displayed nothing but a phone number to call, but the list of local radio stations appeared to be complete. Locate -- displays heading, closest street intersection (both directions), city, state, county, and latitude and longitude. I found this device to be very helpful. Next time I rent a car in an unfamiliar area, I'll request one with an in-car navigation unit. If you have a similar opportunity, I recommend you do, too. To see what the manufacturer has to say about its product, or just see a photograph, go here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?lee1 You can reach Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:LeeHudspeth@TheNakedPC.com ** 06. Featured Product - TextAloud MP3 (by Al Gordon) TextAloud MP3 is software that speaks to me. Literally: it is text-to-synthesized-speech software. But also figuratively: it is a lifestyle problem-solver for me. You know the phenomenon: you are jammed up on a project. You can feel your shoulders and back tighten up. Your muscles are tense, and your mood is worse. You KNOW you need to go out and get some exercise. But There Is Just No Time. Text Aloud MP3 can't write your report for you. But what it can do is let you convert some documents you need to review into MP3s, transfer them onto a digital media player, slip on your headphones, and listen away while you go jog. Speech synthesizers have been around for years, beginning mainly as a tool for the blind. And digital media players are becoming a consumer electronics staple. North Carolina-based NextUp.com has put the two together into a series of products. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?fprod Text Aloud MP3 ($24.95) is the flagship product. It sets up as a Windows clipboard utility that captures copied text and converts it to speech. Or you can manually paste text into the program's dialog boxes. It can then read text immediately via your PC's sound system, or it can save to a .wav or .mp3 file. Optionally -- but it is not an option, you need it -- you can add AT&T "Natural Voices" speech models to TextAloud, for another $24.95. The problem with most synthetic voices is that after a time the lack of changes in pitch and pacing gets on your nerves. You will have turned off the sound long before your jog is over. Natural Voices are still obviously fake, but "Mike" and "Crystal" are easier on the nerves. TIP: set TextAloud to alternate between the two AT&T voices; that also helps make it easier to listen for longer stretches. The product lineup also includes NewsAloud (downloads Associated Press, New York Times and other news stories from Yahoo!), WeatherAloud (forecasts and conditions) and GroupsAloud (a newsgroup reader), $19.95 each. StocksAloud (running price quotes) is $14.95. There also are bundles such as the $34.95 "Productivity Pack" with TextAloud MP3 and NewsAloud. Your mileage may vary, but I thought most of these additional versions were gimmicky and unneeded -- with the notable exception of NewsAloud. For me anyway, putting together a news report to listen to on your media player is a prime reason to use this kind of product. NewsAloud can constantly monitor and download "new news," either reading it immediately or saving it to MP3. The "Natural Voices package also works with NewsAloud. NextUp ought to take this program a step further and make the MP3 conversion automatic as well. That way users would have a stockpile of news reports ready to put on their digital music players. In some ways, the pricing is the news here. It wasn't all that long ago that this kind of speech capability cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. TextAloud MP3 may not be the -- ahem -- last word in text-to- speech. But it is a clever package that many users will find a valuable tool for making better use of their time. (c) 2002, Al Gordon You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 07. Featured Web Site - Bootdisk.com (reviewed by Lee Hudspeth) (Thanks to TNPCer Pj L. for pointing me to this site.) Ever find yourself in need of information or tools related to boot diskettes? Then take your curiosity on over to Bootdisk.com. The home page is a mouthwatering list of Windows and DOS boot disks, all ready for you to download and use, for free. The home page also includes links to drivers, tweaks, networking, bootable CDs, and dozens helpful DOS and Windows guides. The site's overall mission is explained on the Read1st page. The Utilities page offers a stunning plethora of cool tools, covering all types of categories but especially diagnostics and troubleshooting. The BootLIST page takes you to an on-line version of their free e- newsletter "The BootLIST PC Techletter". The Helpdesk page offers links on these categories: free support, Mac, more utilities, more boot disks (Mac System 7.01 and 7.5, DR DOS 7.03, IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0, IBM DOS 4.00, PC DOS 7.00, Red Hat Linux 2.0+ and 6.1, SuSE Linux 6.0), and links to more Windows help sites. I'll be coming back here often to explore the site's wealth of tools and information. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/516/tr.cgi?fsite ** 08. Featured Drawing If you haven't entered one of our The Naked PC survey drawings before, here's how it works. You go to a Web page on our site, answer one survey question, and type in your email address. To encourage folks to participate, we conduct a drawing from the email addresses of each survey's participants and we give away something really useful. Now, obviously we already have your email address or you wouldn't be reading this, but this drawing for prizes will only include those folks who answer this issue's question (entering a prior drawing doesn't count for this one). 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